Model Railway Weekend

Model Railway Display
Weekend

Saturday
8 and Sunday 9 April: 11am to 5pm

This special weekend event will feature the Izzard family
train set and nine additional guest model railway and tram layouts in a variety of
gauges, throughout the building.

The Model Railway Display Weekend is a joint venture between
the Museum and the Bexhill Model Railway Club.

This is a
display not to be missed and, as normal admission rates apply, visitors will
also have access to all of the Bexhill Museum galleries and facilities.

The model railway displays include:

Izzard Family Layout

4mm scale,
00 gauge

Eddie Izzard and his brother Mark have
kindly donated their childhood train set to the Bexhill Museum. Members of the
Bexhill MRC have built this into an 8ft x 4ft 6in layout which is on display in
the Motoring Gallery and is now operational.

Ashington is a model of a typical small Southern
Railway/Region stabling shed as found in many places along the south coast.
Ashington is the station adjacent to the shed.

Haynes Lane

7mm scale, 0
gauge – provided and run by Bexhill Model Railway Club

During the
19th Century over 150 plans for projected railway lines in East
Sussex – including the ‘Eastbourne, Seaford and Newhaven Railway’ (1855), the
‘Cuckmere Valley Light Railway’ (1897) and the ‘Robertsbridge & Pevensey
Light Railway’ (1899) - were deposited in the County Record office at Lewes.
Most of these lines were never built.

Detford

4mm scale,
00 gauge – provided and run by Bexhill Model Railway Club

Detford is a
fine-scale layout in ‘00’ gauge. It represents a small terminus station on the
western edge of the Southern region at the end of a branch line serving a
fairly large rural community.

Somerwell

2mm scale, N
gauge – Mike Canning, Bexhill Model Railway Club

Somerwell
represents a fictitious country town in the east of Leicestershire served by
two branches off the former LNWR/GNR Joint line between Market Harborough and
Melton Mowbray.

‘U’ Drive It

4mm scale,
00 gauge – provided and run by Bexhill Model Railway Club

Especially for our
younger visitors, this is your chance to have a go at driving the trains.Why not have a go!